Double Lives of Objects
Subtitle: An Essay in the Metaphysics of the Ordinary World
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780199683017
Subjects: Ontology; Metaphysics
Description: Thomas Sattig develops a novel philosophical picture of ordinary objects such as persons, tables, and trees. He carves a middle way between classical mereology and Aristotelian hylomorphism, and argues that objects lead double lives. They are compounds of matter and form, and each object's matter and form have different qualitative profiles.